Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region that controls vocalization. It showed that the two relied on different ...

For their study, the research team analyzed structural brain imaging data from 122 adult participants, 32 of whom were ...

“We don’t have a precise definition of a brain,” he said. Scientists home in on the brain’s evolutionary origins by sorting out the animals without brains. Sponges have no neurons, so they are easy to ...

An elephant's brain is four times heavier than a human's. But as a percentage of its body mass it ranks at the bottom. The data used in the video is from UCLA Statistics and the images are from ...

Elephants have the largest brain of all terrestrial mammals, and has the largest cerebral cortex by volume in the animal kingdom. The elephant brain has almost as many cortical neurons as the ...